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Unbalanced, Over the Top, and Farting for Laughs -- Leader of the Free World?

Submitted by BuzzFlash on Fri, 08/25/2006 - 10:24am.

Editorials

A BUZZFLASH EDITORAL

It's hard not to look back on this week and realize how divorced the mainstream media is from the reality of what's important in the news.

First of all, Bush had his most bizarre of bizarre news conferences yet. Only a Jon Stewart "instant analysis" of the event did it justice.

Suffice it to say, the screaming headline from the news conference was Bush admitted that Iraq had absolutely no connection to 9/11. Well, it should have been a screaming headline, but did you see it as front-page news anywhere? Or as the lead story on any television news?

We didn't.

And Bush's "performance" in the news conference was so unbalanced and over-the-top that not only his intelligence should be questioned -- as even the GOP cheerleader Joe Scarborough managed to do -- but his mental stability should be topic number one on the talk shows.

Adding fuel to that last point -- and further indication of a nation run by a man who is suffering from arrested development -- was an item in U.S. News and World Report, largely ignored by the mainstream press, that Bush loves to amuse himself by openly passing gas in front of White House aides. Apparently, his biggest thrill is -- and we are quoting from U.S. News and World Report -- "He's also known to cut a few for laughs, especially when greeting new young aides."

We guess this is what Republicans mean when they claim Bush brought back "honor and dignity" to the White House.

"Farting" for fun to humiliate new young White House staffers isn't just passing gas, it's a downright disgrace to the American people and to the White House.

We apologize for bringing it up, but Bush is the guy who is playing whoopee cushion jokes while our kids are dying in Iraq -- and no one in the mainstream press thinks that this is some underlying indication that he is unfit for office?

Frankly, it stinks to high heavens. Literally.

As for the ludicrous assertion that Bush has taken to reading the French existentialist writer, Albert Camus, we defer to our BuzzFlash Blogger in the Last Chance Democracy Cafe, who dubbed George "The Farting Voltaire."

If this weren't all so tragic for America, it would be, well, a gas.

But people are dying by the thousands and our president is literally farting around for kicks.

This is sick, very sick.

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL

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Stain on the nation

Submitted by Bill Potts on Sat, 08/26/2006 - 9:51am.

The whole thing reminds me of the British expression, "Useless as a wet fart."

Sooner or later, he'll let one of those -- or worse -- thus symbolizing his status as a stain on the nation.

In the meantime, he seems incapable of feeling embarrassment, leaving the rest of us to feel that emotion on his behalf.

Bill Potts, Author, Bushopedia

Instead of "The Buck Stops Here", Bush's desk plaque...

Submitted by frappe on Sat, 08/26/2006 - 9:32am.

should read: "The Shit Starts Here" - I think that this eloquently captures the essence of the Bush presidency, don't you?

Rectal Eloquence

Submitted by Greg Forest on Fri, 08/25/2006 - 8:42pm.

At least one end of George Bush can communicate clearly.

Greg Forest

dies

Submitted by silentpawz on Fri, 08/25/2006 - 9:01pm.

I think that just summed it up perfectly! Thanks for the laugh...I needed it! :D

Bush jaw-dropper: "I am responsible for the Federal government"

Submitted by lambert on Fri, 08/25/2006 - 8:31pm.

Yes, actual quote (and video) Last I checked, the Federal government under the Constitution had three branches, not just one. No matter what The Decider might say.

Gas Ass George

Submitted by LibKat on Sat, 08/26/2006 - 8:57am.

Bush jaw-dropper: "I am responsible for the Federal government" That's a "jaw-dropper"? Don't we already know this about Our Gearless Leader? Bush should be straightforward and drop the words, "responsible for".

Thirsty

Submitted by Gonnuts on Fri, 08/25/2006 - 8:21pm.

Oh, the righteous rage! Cruise, Ramsey, if some frick'n rock, million's of miles away from our real troubles, matter? Rage? YOU BET YOUR SWEET ASS!!! What's next? Are we going to find out that bush when talking to us from behind a desk is really naked from the waist down farting into storage bags for posterity? Kind of makes Clinton's "humidor" thing seem sane. (Oh, for those days of $1.24 gas and peace) How much further down the rabbit-hole are we going to go? There has to be an end somewhere? Then we find out that, like Hitler, bush is a known public flagellator, but unlike Hitler, whose infliction was involuntary, bush finds delight in this public display? I suppose we'll find him next groping some world leader’s shoulders, seeing him chewing with his mouth opening while talking to other world leaders as though he were a five-year old? Oh, wait ... oh never mind.

Bush & the Military

Submitted by brooklyngirl on Fri, 08/25/2006 - 7:18pm.

Does anyone else remember Bush's words in the 2000 debates? He said: "And to those of you out there in the military, hang on, help is on the way!" Some help.

G-Boy Expelling Gas

Submitted by LibKat on Fri, 08/25/2006 - 6:28pm.

" 'Farting' for fun to humiliate new young White House staffers isn't just passing gas, it's a downright disgrace (etc). " It's also SADISTIC, in a low-key sort of way, but nonetheless sadistic. Deliberate humiliation with selfish motives, demeaning someone else against that person's will, and taking advantage of that person's vulnerability before an authority figure, is sadism. Authoritarian types, like GW Bush, thrive on this sort of demeaning behavior, and Bush has a long history of sadism. It includes but isn't limited to blowing up frogs and burning frat men with hot coat hangers. "But people are dying by the thousands and our president is literally farting around for kicks." The message is obvious: he doesn't give a gas-stuffed balloon for human (or any other) lives. His grotesque personality hasn't changed since early childhood. Being President is an excuse for him to humiliate everyone in small ways, like farting and head-rubbing, and big ways, like wars. All of it relates to Bush's sadistic personality. He's the neighborhood bully at a beer bash. When will the American public realize that our country is being run by sadists, not just George but Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Rove and Gonzales? Like a hive of wasps, they all share a group mind.

Unbalanced Farter - our Leader - read "Bush on the Couch"

Submitted by AimeeFridayHarbor on Fri, 08/25/2006 - 2:40pm.

Well, our leader needs to be examined and removed from the White House. Try reading: Bush on the Couch: Inside the mind of the president Justin A. Frank, M.D. A renowned Washington, DC-based psychoanalyst examines George W. Bush's public persona-and asks serious questions about whether he is fit for the office he holds. Time for change. Yoo Hoo Fitzgerald! Where art thou? Peace and Good Luck, Aimee www.dataoptions.com

Susan

Submitted by sjznyc on Fri, 08/25/2006 - 12:43pm.

We all know he's read My Pet Goat. And I heard that he was still pouring through Pat the Bunny. I doubt Camus is on his reading list--there are no pictures.

Don't listen to that a**hole!

Submitted by Jawbreaker Tend... on Fri, 08/25/2006 - 12:39pm.

If your Heart is Swollen with Ache and Crushing your Bones the Spirit has reached Greatness and All is Well. Whatever comes out of the man's rearend cannot be any worse than what comes out of his mouth.

Speaking with one voice

Submitted by stevehigh on Fri, 08/25/2006 - 12:31pm.

The mainstream media includes lunatics like Ann Coulter, invited onto talk shows just as if she didn't look, act and talk like an escaped mental patient who had killed her parents and kept their body parts in a compact refrigerator; drug addicts like Rush Limbaugh, he of the draft-deferred rectum; and unreconstructed campaign managers like Roger Ailes, who went straight from producing the Willie Horton ad to running "fair and balanced" Fox News.

It is not an easy environment for Democrats to swim in, and we can be heard--and get credit for being heard--only when we speak with one voice:

Katrinina, Katrina,

Where you been so long?

The blogosphere should provide the backup, do-wops, and kettle-drums.

-Steve

Bush's Mental Stability

Submitted by oldphart on Fri, 08/25/2006 - 11:42am.

That's it in a NUTshell.

The Cut'n Camus

Submitted by Jess Wundrun on Fri, 08/25/2006 - 11:38am.

Isn't The Stranger the novel about a guy who gets taunted by Arabs, sulks about it and then goes back and kills one? Wonder why Bush would read that? (Incidentally, as a product of the Eastern Prep School/Ivy League shouldn't Bush be RE-reading the works of Camus, Shakespeare and other classicists supposedly on his reading list?)

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